The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 153
They all wondered greatly at the many forms the Great Wizard could take upon himself, and the Lion said:
Who acts: friends, many, Great Wizard, Lion · What happens: wonder, form, take, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, many, Great Wizard, Lion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 wondered | advmod |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 wondered | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 forms | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 many | det |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forms | nsubj |
| 8 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondered | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wizard | det |
| 10 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Wizard | amod |
| 11 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 forms | ccomp |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 take | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lion | det |
| 19 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | friends = friend | greatly property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | form | present | the many | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | could | the Great Wizard | upon Wizard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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